Re: Sawilan Poetry

Ed Heil wrote:

> (since I
> don't know enough about the grammar of any proper isolating language
> -- e.g. Chinese --
As was established on this list some years ago, Chinese has more
inflectional morphology than English.  Just because Chinese people
think in zi4 (characters) doesn't make it an isolating language.
As languages go, English is way out on the isolating end of the
spectrum and Chinese is just slightly more inflectional.

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)